Word: levins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write a classic Broadway thriller but didn't have any good ideas. Why not write a play about a once-successful but now faded dramatist who wants to write a classic Broadway thriller but doesn't have any good ideas? That's precisely what the protagonist in Ira Levin's new thriller, Deathtrap, decides to do and, not so coincidentally, it is what Ira Levin, a successful novelist (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write...
...prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
...classics thrown in for good measure. On the Twentieth Century, a new musical comedy set in the old Twentieth Century Limited train, plays at 8 daily, and Thursday and Saturday at 2, at the Colonial Theatre. Another new play, a murder suspense thriller entitled Deathtrap, by Ira Levin, starts January 26 with performances Monday through Saturday at 8, and Wednesday and Saturday at 2, at the Wilbur Theatre...
...been here watching Harvard hockey for three years now and after viewing last night's boring-as-a Harry Levin-lecture loss to Clarkson all I can say is that it never fails to happen...